To start to think reform will be voted in next time, and they will be running the country

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I’ve been a life long labour voter, but I’m starting to think reform will be elected next time
mainly just due to so many criminals that want to harm us being allowed in and allowed to stay
and uncontrolled immigration

I think they are going to win it on this reason alone
every single day there’s a news story usually more than one someone’s been raped by one of these criminals one the other day even said he didn’t understand what rape is and he thought rape was just sex

what do you all think ?
Will reform be running the country soon ?
if they are are the capable of running things in other areas ?
if they take over how do you see that actually panning out ?

All I know is that walking around my nearest big city (Manchester) there are some incredibly worrying trends on the streets that need to be addressed before it’s too late and so far Con and Lab have shown zero ability in managing them.

Gangs, homelessness, drug addicts, money laundering shops and barbers, organised begging, crumbling roads and buildings, muggings are all the accepted new normal, society carries on around them absorbing the fallout because there is no alternative.

Boriswave is just another Reform rhetoric, a term coined by online rightwing accounts.

And what is Reform offering to solve that?

I mean Brexit was done to take back control of immigration and have a fair "points based system". And then they took back control and decided to increase immigration.... It was a big backfire. Instead of high skilled EU migrants, it was low skilled migrants from wherever.

Uk is using a point based system now

Your issue is with immigrants from certain countries. But that was what Brexit promised. A fairer system for people from outside the EU

God knows I don’t usually vote because I don’t trust any political party, I only know previous governments allowed this mess on their watch so I’d be very skeptical of them being able or inclined to reverse the damage.

What are the Greens, Lib Dem’s or Restore offering?

Are you content with the way society and our country is today?

Yes, I am happy living in the UK

Ofcourse there are many things that need to be improved. We are still recovering from austerity, brexit, covid. There is no magic wand, it will take time

Lol lol - and you’re still being offensively and publicly racist btw.

Sigh - and this is why we got Brexit - we already had a points based system fgs - we also told EU citizens we didn’t want them and then had to fill the gaps.

Instead of high skilled EU migrants

Why are we paying 700,000 high-skilled EU migrants Universal Credit?

You can get UC whilst not being a citizen? I assumed they have "settled status" or ILR

If they are 'high-skilled' why can't they get a better job/work more hours?

Honesty they should

I think you’ll all find that most of those numbers around UC will relate to childcare help - the free bits that help everyone work - sigh again.

Again. We've never claimed a single penny of benefits. No child benefits. No free childcare. We just earned too much.

Can't people pay for their own kids and manage their own bills?

And then you get all the cries about how immigrants steal British jobs

Oh wow, why on earth was @BIossomtoes deleted?

I asked for it to be deleted. It was ill advised. Whoever deleted it hit the wrong button.

Yes, you can't just come to the UK to claim UC. Those EU migrants will have settled status.

As Clavinova knows

Ok that’s great - the threshold for claiming childcare assistance is now a net adjusted take home of £100,000 - not sure when we all needed to be earning that amount to be decent members of society.

Good for you. Not everyone can earn that much though - I never earned enough to go above the cut off for child benefit, for example, and I got family tax credit while working full time as a Head of English in a secondary school because generally speaking roles fulfilling social purposes aren't as well paid as sone other types of role. It doesn’t mean people aren’t hard working or contributing necessary skills to the country if they are eligible for some benefits.

£50,000 when introduced in 2013.

Yup. My income exceeded £50k before tax precisely once. It was just after I took my pension early and a local school asked me to do a maternity cover full time which I agreed to, so I had full pay plus my pension. Even then I was only just over - and DD was a functioning adult with her own mortgage!

Sorry - edited as I misread this post and was being a tad sarky - sorry again